“Findings from an international collaborative study of uranium miners from France, the Czech Republic, Canada, Germany and the United States” Please join us for the Environmental Health in Action Colloquium Series talk with Dr. David Richardson on Wednesday March 13th at 1 pm EST. This talk will be held in a hybrid format, both in HSPH Building 1, room 1302 and via Zoom. For Trainees, we will also hold a…
A Howlin’ Good Time: Superfund CEC Joins in Franklin Park Zoo Halloween Event
BOSTON – The Superfund Community Engagement Core participated in the annual New England Franklin Park Zoo Howl for Halloween this year. Our booth provided handouts designed by members of our team adapted from Boston’s Annual Water Quality Report. Kids engaged in a modified version of the “Ap’peeling Purifier” experiment, learning about how plants absorb metals, while receiving treats.
Now Hiring: Community-Focused Postdoc Fellowship in Environmental Health
Job Board Title: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Environmental Health Location: Boston, MA Expiration Date *Now accepting applications until: Sept 15, 2023 Details: Job Description The Department of Environmental Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, is looking for an exceptional postdoctoral fellow to join their National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Center to work closely with the Center’s Community Engagement Core. The postdoctoral fellow will be working under the…
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2023 Center Retreat
Meet Our Members: Katherine von Stackelberg, ScD
This month, we chat with Dr. Katherine von Stackelberg, ScD, senior research scientist and director of research translation in the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School. Dr. Stackelberg has long worked at the intersection of science and policy, originally in assessing public health and ecological risks of exposure to environmental contaminants, which expanded to the role of natural systems, expressed as ecosystem services, in supporting well-being,…
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‘Descendant’ Unearths Painful Legacy; New Opportunities
BOSTON – On Thursday, our Center hosted a film screening of ‘Descendant’, a Netflix documentary film that follows the descendants of the survivors of the last known slave ship to transport human beings as cargo from Africa to America. The screening, held at MassArt Tower Auditorium on April 20, 2023, was followed by a panel discussion about the legacy of slavery and the nation’s failure to confront that legacy, as…
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Climate and Justice: Q&A with USEPA Administrator David Cash
BOSTON, MA – On Weds, Dec. 14, our Center partnered with the Office of Communications to host “Climate and Justice: The EPA’s action plan” in The Studio. The featured speaker was David Cash, EPA’s Regional Administrator for Region 1. Dr. Cash leads the implementation of the Biden-Harris environmental agenda in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and in 10 Tribal Nations. He spoke with moderator Dr. Marc Weisskopf…
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2022 Center Retreat
BOSTON, MA. – On Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, the HSPH-NIEHS Center for Environmental Health hosted their annual retreat at the Weld Hill Research Building in the Arnold Arboretum. This marked the first time since 2019 that the retreat was held in-person (with some virtual attendees as well). We hosted speakers from within various departments of the Chan School of Public Health, as well as from the Trust for Public Land,…
Earth Day 2022 at Franklin Park Zoo
On Earth Day, April 22, our Superfund Research Center Community Engagement Core in Boston attended Franklin Park Zoo’s annual Party for the Planet. CEC staff were joined by Harvard Chan School students, post-docs and NIEHS Center staff to provide an interactive booth about water safety and filtration. Children were invited to make a coffee filter flower craft and run experiments with a water filter demonstration. Some children even used the…
Biogen-funded Harvard Study on Air Pollution and Dementia Risk Presented at AAN 2022
BOSTON, MA – It is well-established that air pollution is detrimental to human health. Air pollution is responsible for 1 in 5 deaths worldwide. What has been less clear is the potential connection between air pollution and dementia. But in the past two years, studies on the subject have proliferated. Biogen has been working with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health NIEHS Center for Environmental Health to sift through…